India, Feb. 16 -- It was a routine arrest for Narender Singh, alias Tillu, 43, on Friday. This was the thirteenth time he was arrested, in an attempted murder case, for being sent to jail, an environment he is well acquainted with now.

For the victim Surender, 42, a contractor of Quila Colony in Badshahpur, things are very different. It has now been almost one and a half months that he has remained bedridden and dependent on his family for food and daily chores as all four limbs recover from more than half a dozen fractures allegedly inflicted by Tillu and a gang member for expressing inability to pay Rs.2 lakh in extortion money, even as he had already paid Rs.1 lakh.

The pain and trauma he continues to endure is unbearable, he said, a...